Personal Narrative: A Career In My Writing

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Although I am only a thirteen-year-old, there are about three whole things that some people may not know about me. First of all, my favorite hobby, among others, is playing video games. Unlike many people who play console, mobile, or PC games, I enjoy using tactics and strategy. Most gamers in today's gaming society enjoy holding the trigger or mouse button and spraying bullets back and forth until they can get a kill. However, when I play online games such as Battlefield or Medal of Honor, I like to use tactics and sneak up on my enemy. The next fact that some may not know about me is that I do not only enjoy writing at school when it is required. This may seem a bit surprising considering I am only thirteen; however, I do enjoy writing …show more content…
Among many types of writing, I enjoy writing fictional pieces that create imagery in the minds of the readers and requires some creativity to write successfully. This is my favorite type of writing because I feel like it is the type of writing that people should read more of to relax after work or school; unlike informational writing, creative writing takes the reader out of the daily work routine and places them in an imaginary scenario. The final and quite possibly most interesting fact that nobody probably knows about me, concerns my pets. I know what the reader may be thinking: “What could possibly be interesting about pets? Everyone writes about pets!” But aside from those dark thoughts, I assure my readers that this will not be the average “pet talk.” To begin, I have a nice, enormous, hairy turtle. That's because he is not a turtle at all. Now, this may sound crazy, but this “Turtle” is actually a tarantula whom I haven’t exactly named yet. Long story short, I brought him to school last year and the girls didn't want to see him so I said that he was a turtle so that they would come catch a glimpse. Afterward I jokingly called him turtle and haven’t renamed him officially. Anyways… My next pet is a Western Box tortoise that is roughly three years

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